Quotes About Prices

Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.

I spent some time in Paris when I made 'Black Tights.' The working people were great but I didn't like the attitude of merchants who raised prices when they learned you were an American.

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.

The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Laws that prohibit imports of foreign goods create monopolies at home and impoverish the public by condemning the country to restricted abundance, high prices, and, in Britain's case, "the rude produce [of] its own soil.

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

In the stock market, as with horse racing, money makes the mare go. Monetary conditions exert an enormous influence on stock prices.

This process is known as inflation, something that was good for the universe in contrast to inflation of prices that too often plagues us.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

the economy performs best if the central bank has the latitude to make monetary policy decisions in pursuit of maximum employment and stable prices,

setting aside the most volatile prices leads to better predictions of overall inflation.

The critics based their argument on the fact that lower interest rates tend to raise prices for assets such as stocks and houses.

had doubts. Short-selling is part of how a healthy market determines prices. A

it allows stock prices to reflect a full range of views.

My colleagues and I also were uncertain about the economic consequences of the war, especially its effect on energy prices.

I noted that at least some of the house price appreciation was the result of fundamental factors such as growing incomes and low mortgage rates.

During the FDR administration, economic policy was set from the top; ignoring the injunction by economically laissez-faire thinkers that no set of individuals can know more than the entire market at large, FDR and his cadre of geniuses lengthened the Great Depression by nearly a decade by manipulating the currency, setting wages and prices, and bullying those who objected into silence.

The intelligent investor realizes that stocks become more risky, not less, as their prices rise—and less risky, not more, as their prices fall. The intelligent investor dreads a bull market, since it makes stocks more costly to buy. And conversely (so long as you keep enough cash on hand to meet your spending needs), you should welcome a bear market, since it puts stocks back on sale. 8

Be that as it may, for our present purposes, a bottom line emerges: Stock prices are not independent. Today's action can, at least slightly, affect tomorrow's action. The standard model is, again, wrong.

Gasoline prices are a direct reflection of the cost of the raw materials to produce the gasoline, no different than any other product that you would buy, whether it's a good or some other consumable, or it's a luxury item. It's all a function of what do the raw materials cost.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.